Improved railway-rail chair



J. H. TEAHL.

I Railroad Chair.

No. 93,367. Patented Aug. 3, 1869.

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Letters lfatent No. 93,367, dated August 3, 1869.

IMPROVED RAILWAY-RAIL CHAIR.

' The Schedule referred to in-these Letters Patent and making p311: of the same.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN H. TEAHL, of Eberlys Mill, in the county of Cumberland, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Railroad-Rails; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference markedthereon, which form a part of this specification, and in which Figure 1 represents a plan view;

Figure 2, an end view;

Figure 3, a side elevation of the bed-piece;

Figure 4, an end view of the bed-piece; and

Figure 5, a side elevation of the rails, showing the bed-piece in place.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts in all the figures.

My invention relates to improvements in railroadrails; and/to this end,

It consists in so constructing a rail with two faces, that both faces may be at right angles to each other.

It further consists in the employment of an oval or convex chair, or bed-piece, substantially as hereinafter described.

To enable others to make and use my invention, I will now describe its construction and operation.

In the accompanying drawings, a a represent the rails, which are formed with two faces, each face being exactly at right angles to the other; that is, if a line is drawn from the centre of the face of each toward the base of each, it will form a right angle.

0 represents the chair. This chair is made convex, so as to fit the concave formed on the rail, as seen at b. Instead of this mode of constructiugthe chair, it

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and accidents consequent upon the severelateral press-'1; me to which-the rails are subjected. By construct ing the rail in this manner, I am enabled to use/the rail twice as long as the ordinary T-iron rail.

I am aware that rails with two faces have been here toforc used, but eachface forms, with the other, an obtuse angle, which makesthe bases also obtuse, and thereby renders the rail less secure than mine.

I do not, therefore, claim broadly, a rail constructed with two faces; but

\Vhat I do claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A railroad-rail, constructed with two bearing-surfaces, said surfaces being at right angles to each other, and formed with a concavity on the under side of that portion of the rail which rests on the sills, in combination with a convex chair, or a convex bed-piece, constructed as described, operating substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as. my own, I aflix my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

JNO. 11.,TEAHL.

Witnesses:

Gno. B. OoLn, J OHN M. MoGLUnE. 

